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Personal injury lawyers have called for the limitation period for claims from victims of child abuse to be abolished with immediate effect.
When does time start to run for deliberate concealment claims? Katy Ackroyd & Simon Heatley examine a Court of Appeal ruling which answers this question
Chris Bushell & Ceri Morgan examine the increasingly high bar for claims to extend the limitation period

Simon Anderson discusses the elastic limitation period post-Carroll

Adrian Kwintner reviews the s 14A special time limit for negligence actions

The time is right to introduce a bespoke procedure for personal injury product claims, argues Mary Blyth

Karen O’Sullivan considers limitation & the impact of delay

Dominic Regan predicts good times ahead for UK litigators

Do exclusion or limitation of liability clauses apply to cases of deliberate repudiatory breach, ask Ceri Morgan & Melanie Shefford

Heather Platt examines the law in relation to children who sue their parents

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Serious injury teambolstered by high-profile partner hire

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

NEWS
Tech companies will be legally required to prevent material that encourages or assists serious self-harm appearing on their platforms, under Online Safety Act 2023 regulations due to come into force in the autumn
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found
Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release
David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle
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